Mendelsohn, E.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: Science Between Utopia and Dystopia

Just fifty years ago Julian Huxley, the biologist grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, published a book which easily could be seen to represent the prevail ing outlook among young scientists of the day: If I were a Dictator (1934). The outlook is optimistic, the tone playfully rational, the intent clear - allow science a free hand and through rational planning it could bring order out of the surrounding social chaos.

• Mendelsohn, E.
• 2012-12-06